So wow! I can’t thank you folks enough for all the well wishes on my behalf after I shared my basically nauseating tale of having a mole on my upper back removed.

The good news, though? The little creep was innocent of all charges, and had been taken to the slammer unjustly. However, as a result of the experience, he has decided to travel from school to school as a cautionary tale of what can happen when you forget to use sunscreen. Be looking for him at an assembly near you…

On a totally unrelated note, however, I’m sad to report that my eldest son also has a growth that I have no idea how to get rid of. It would seem that he and his netbook have become a single entity.

In fact, I’m pretty sure I saw him take it with him to the bathroom yesterday.

It’s becoming a little worrisome. I’d like to separate him from his new gadget, but I fear it may take more than a visit to the dermatologist to get rid of this foreign body. I’m not even sure a surgeon has got the skills needed for an excision like this one.

Nope… this one is going to need some heavy-duty psychoanalysis, I think. If I could only remember how I got H-T to finally give up that pacifier…

I’ve been avoiding my blog lately. It happens almost every time I teach another session of the Blog Writing Course. For one thing, I’m spending 25-30 hours a week on the laptop for work, and about the last thing I want to do at the end of a day of telling people how to blog is…well…blog.

So I’ve been keeping my life and my thoughts to myself, which isn’t really healthy for me, actually. I’ve noticed this strange twitch in my right cheekbone.

Share or twitch?? What a conundrum.

Ok. Why not start right out with the most disgusting factoid?

I had to have a mole removed. From my upper back. I think I’ve shared that I’m one chromosome shy of albino, so that fair-skinned curse, combined with about a hundred excruciating sunburns as a child, has put me right in the middle of the danger zone for skin cancer. I avoided it as absolutely long as possible, but then figured it was time for the dermatologist and I to get cozy, so that’s just what we did last week when he took a look and definitely categorized my mole as “suspicious.”

But instead of setting up a sting operation, or even setting up a neighborhood watch, he just pulled out a razorblade and took the thing to the pokey right then and there. I had no idea the justice system had become so proactive, let me tell you, or I would have avoided it a good bit longer!!

Anyway, I’m supposed to hear back from the doc this week whether the poor guy was really guilty or not. In the meantime, my cheekbone will be working overtime, I assure you.

So thanks for listening. Maybe it’ll give me a break for a few hours now.